Where does Sun Hydraulics, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sun Hydraulics, LLC ranks #6,487 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Sun Hydraulics, LLC hold?

Sun Hydraulics, LLC holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Sun Hydraulics, LLC's Innovation Score?

Sun Hydraulics, LLC has an Innovation Score of 40.8 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sun Hydraulics, LLC focus on?

Sun Hydraulics, LLC's top technology area is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating) with 42 patents, ranking #34 of 1,836 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sun Hydraulics, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sun Hydraulics, LLC's recent grant velocity is +225% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sun Hydraulics, LLC's patents?

Sun Hydraulics, LLC's patents average 17.2 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Sun Hydraulics, LLC patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Sun Hydraulics, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sun ranks #6,487 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 18 technology areas.

#6,487
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.8/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: +225%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6487 · US Corporation #6,487 · 52 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,487/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sartorius Stedim…
CPC-FOCUS F16K · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +225% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sartorius Stedim North America Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Sun’s 40.8 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 13.7 pts (34%) Velocity 1.7 pts (4%) Breadth 15.0 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pharmacyclics · near

41
Sigray · near

41
Sun Hydraulics · this assignee

41
The Foundry · near

41
Unomedical A/S · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sun's Innovation Score is 40.8/100 (top 35% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Sun?

Each dot is one of Sun’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Sun’s own 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Sun vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Sun's grants concentrate

Sun Hydraulics, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 80.8% of grants classified under F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Sun sits between Sierra Wireless, Inc. and Toyo Aluminium Kabushiki Kaisha.

Sun's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sun Hydraulics, LLC moved from 39 to 10 grants (0.26x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Sierra Wireless

52
Soremartec

52
Sartorius Stedim…

52
Sharp Life Scienc…

52
Sutro Biopharma

52
Technology Resear…

52
THE Gleason Works

52
Toyo Aluminium

52
Sun Hydraulics ◀

52

What this shows Sun holds 52 patents at rank #6,487, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sun

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,487 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16K (Valves)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Sun's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sun, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16K (Valves), Sun ranks #34 of 1,836 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Sigray, Inc. 41 Unomedical A/S 41 The Foundry, LLC 41 Pharmacyclics LLC 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

Flir Belgium Bvba 17.2 avg Think Surgical, Inc. 17.2 avg Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd. 17.2 avg Soraa, Inc. 17.2 avg

Sun's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Sun Hydraulics, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	1.9%
2017	1	1.9%
2019	10	19.2%
2020	19	36.5%
2021	10	19.2%
2022	3	5.8%
2023	3	5.8%
2024	4	7.7%
2025partial year	1	1.9%

Which technologies does Sun Hydraulics, LLC patent most?

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 42

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 37

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 7

F16H - Gearing 3

F05B - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia OR Like Motors, TO Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids Covered BY Subclasses F03b, F03d AND F03g 3

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 3

F03B - Machines OR Engines FOR Liquids 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 3

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

E02F - DREDGING; Soil-shifting 1

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1

Top 15 of 18 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Sun Hydraulics, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sun Hydraulics, LLC's lead technology class is F16K (VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating), 80.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16K
Ranked #6,487 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sun Hydraulics, LLC against Sierra Wireless, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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